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Manicurist-mom murdered over $35 manicure, nail salon client on the run! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Newly released surveillance video shows
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Speaker 1: the moment a payment dispute over a thirty five dollar
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Speaker 1: manicure turned into a murder investigation. Police save twenty one
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Speaker 1: year old Crystal Whipple was behind the wheel. They tell
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Speaker 1: us the nail salon declined her fraudulent credit card and
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Speaker 1: she decided to take off. Whipple starts to drive away
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Speaker 1: from the salon. New Knockwin, known as Annie, and another
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Speaker 1: employee run out of the store to confront Whipple. She
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Speaker 1: doesn't stop. Hits Win then runs her over, killing her,
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Speaker 1: and then drives away, knocking the other employee off of
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Speaker 1: the car. Seeking the communities help to find Whipple, Metro
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Speaker 1: Police Lieutenant Ray Spencer had this to say, Please take
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Speaker 1: a close look at this photo. It is important that
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Speaker 1: we get this suspect into custody, as the victim's family
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Speaker 1: and this community deserve to have her answer for this
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Speaker 1: horrible crime. While detectives search for the suspect, the victim's
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Speaker 1: family mourns a growing memorial to Win now sits inside
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Speaker 1: of the nail salon. Family members shared these words with
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Speaker 1: us from a gofund me page they've set up. Family
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Speaker 1: members write, quote, we miss her very much and will
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Speaker 1: always hold her dear in our hearts and memories. And
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Speaker 1: although she suffered for the sake of her family, we
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Speaker 1: hope she knows that she is loved by many. You're
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Speaker 1: hearing our friends at ksn VTV. That's Max Darrow reporting
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Speaker 1: on a murder that has shocked the community. How many
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Speaker 1: times have you walked into your nail salon not thought
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Speaker 1: twice about it? Okay? How many times have you dropped
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Speaker 1: your wife or daughter there? How many times have I
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Speaker 1: taken my little Lucy as a treat to the salon?
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Speaker 1: But when this salon worker was doing her job, going
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Speaker 1: about her business, she ran in to Crystal Whipple and
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Speaker 1: her life ended. I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: rest until this woman answers to Lady Justice joining me
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Speaker 1: la psycho analyst, doctor Bethany Marshall, Karen Smith, forensic's expert,
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Speaker 1: Kenya Johnson, Atlanta prosecutor. Right now to Crime online dot
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Speaker 1: Com investigative reporter John Lemley John, I can't take it in.
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Speaker 1: Who is this Crystal Whipple? She is a woman that
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Speaker 1: just stopped in a few days after Christmas to get
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Speaker 1: a thirty five dollar manicure. The situation seemed so simple
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Speaker 1: the victim at the center of this knock when she
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Speaker 1: told people, my name is hard to pronounce, so just
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Speaker 1: call me Annie. She was a dear friend for not
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Speaker 1: only you know, family and other friends, but also her clients.
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Speaker 1: They turned to her not only when they needed their
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Speaker 1: their their hands and feet to look nice, but also
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Speaker 1: she gave them a lending ear. She would listen to
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Speaker 1: them talk about their problems or or maybe you know,
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Speaker 1: their joys as well. She was a hard working single
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Speaker 1: mom of three girls. Who who whoa whoa right there,
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Speaker 1: right there, a single mom of three teen girls. I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at Jackie right now, who brought her son up
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Speaker 1: largely alone. I've got twins boy girl age eleven. Can
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Speaker 1: you imagine a single mom with three teen girls. To
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Speaker 1: my longtime friend and colleague, doctor Bethany Marshall joining me
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Speaker 1: out of La renowned LA psychoanalyst, Doctor Bethany, We've been
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Speaker 1: through a lot together and you know what I went
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Speaker 1: through to have the twins and raise them right, I'm
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Speaker 1: still trying every single day to do the right thing
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Speaker 1: all day, every day, Doctor Bethany, I cannot. I think
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Speaker 1: I might just break down in tears right now. A
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Speaker 1: single mom raising three teen girls. How hard is that? Teens,
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Speaker 1: especially Nancy. I actually had a memory about you the
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Speaker 1: other day, which just about a week ago. I was
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Speaker 1: thinking about when I went to New York City and
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Speaker 1: I was on the set of I Think it was
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Speaker 1: True TV and you wrote something on a piece of
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Speaker 1: paper and you scribbled it down, and you shoved it
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Speaker 1: across the the anchor desk at me, and it said,
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Speaker 1: I'm pregnant with twins exclamation mark, And you wanted me
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Speaker 1: to know, and nobody else knew, and you couldn't say
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Speaker 1: it because you were miked up, and nobody knew. And
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Speaker 1: I was so blown away and honored that you let
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Speaker 1: me know, and the look of excitement on your face.
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Speaker 1: I was just thinking about that a week ago, and
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Speaker 1: then when I was reading about this manicurist. One of
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Speaker 1: the things that her family and friends said is that
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Speaker 1: she never kept a gift for herself. She always passed
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Speaker 1: gifts along to her daughters because everything she did was
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Speaker 1: for them. She wanted to send them to school, she
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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that they got their college educations.
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Speaker 1: And she was a manicurist, so that thirty five dollars
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Speaker 1: fee that this perpetrator ran out the door and didn't pay.
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Speaker 1: You know, some of us might think, well, why you
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Speaker 1: lose your life over thirty five dollars, Well, thirty five
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Speaker 1: dollars meant a lot to this person because she was
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Speaker 1: single and raising three girls. And it's so tragic that
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Speaker 1: this perpetrator came in and exploited the life and heart
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Speaker 1: of a mom. I mean, that is just so tragic,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's what you were asking about and
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Speaker 1: trying to point to. It's just it's a bedrock of
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Speaker 1: this story and it's so sad. Bethany. I'm just I
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Speaker 1: remember that moment, by the way. I remember it like
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Speaker 1: I see yesterdays then court TV. And I was keeping
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Speaker 1: the twins a secret because I didn't want the world
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Speaker 1: to know because they had already told me that, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's such a strong risk that I would miss Carrie,
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Speaker 1: and it's a very high risk. I just didn't want to.
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Speaker 1: Jink said, I know that's superstitious, but you know, once
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Speaker 1: they came along, that's been everything to me. And I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking about this mom working these very very long hours,
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Speaker 1: very long hours and just doing anything and everything. Twelve
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Speaker 1: and fourteen hours a day. That's how that's how long
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Speaker 1: her hours were, just so she could support her three girls.
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Speaker 1: I'm very overcome. I just got to tell you that
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Speaker 1: right now. John Limley, crime online dot Com investigative reporter.
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Speaker 1: other breaking crime news is at crime online dot Com,
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Speaker 1: also with me renown forensics expert Kieren Smith and Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Kenya Johnson. I got a lot of questions for you, ladies,
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Speaker 1: John Limley, I want to go back to what went wrong?
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Speaker 1: How did this mother of three girls end up being
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Speaker 1: dragged to her death in the parking lot. As we've mentioned,
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Speaker 1: this was the Saturday right after Christmas and Annie and
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Speaker 1: her longtime partner, this is partner in two senses, both
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Speaker 1: in business and in life, Sonny Chung was a co
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Speaker 1: manager and also her boyfriend for thirteen years. They were
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Speaker 1: at work at the nail salon Crystal Nails and Spa
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas's West Valley. They had quite a number
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Speaker 1: of customers that day. I know exactly where that is,
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Speaker 1: David and I you remember this, John, We took everybody
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Speaker 1: remembers this. Poor Alan and Jackie. We took the twins
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Speaker 1: on an RV trip and we started. We started in
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Speaker 1: Phoenix and we went all the way to San Francisco,
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Speaker 1: and we stopped in Vegas. Okay, in Vegas, of course,
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Speaker 1: we went to shows. We went to go see David
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Speaker 1: Copperfield because my son's obsessed with magic. And we went
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Speaker 1: on a helicopter ride and we went to the Grand
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Speaker 1: Canyon Blah blah. I know exactly where you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: It's a very very popular nail salon. Okay, so she's
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Speaker 1: in there, but you still haven't told me. How does
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Speaker 1: she get dragged across the parking a lot, John Lemley, Well,
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Speaker 1: late that afternoon, this young woman comes in asks for
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Speaker 1: the thirty five dollars manage crystal whipple. Crystal Whipple. After
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Speaker 1: her nails are done, she hands over a credit card
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Speaker 1: which is declined time after time after time, and at
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Speaker 1: some point she says something something to the effect of,
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Speaker 1: no big deal, I have cash in the car. I'll
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Speaker 1: be right back. Well, this is far from the first
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Speaker 1: time that this has happened at the salon, so no
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Speaker 1: one really thinks anything about it until Annie and Sonny
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Speaker 1: notice that not only has the woman gotten into her car,
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Speaker 1: but she's beginning to back out of the parking space
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Speaker 1: and is starting to drive away. This is when Annie
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Speaker 1: and Sonny dash out the door try to get the
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Speaker 1: woman's attention. In the surveillance video, you can see Annie
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Speaker 1: run in front of the car to stop the woman,
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Speaker 1: but that is a fatal mistake. I'm Lieutenant Ray Spencer
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Speaker 1: with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Section. I'm
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Speaker 1: coming to you today with a plea for assistance in
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Speaker 1: solving a recent case involving the death of a local
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Speaker 1: woman outside a nail salon. The salon is located in
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Speaker 1: a shopping center at Flamingo Indicator. The incident occurred on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: December twenty ninth, at approximately three forty five in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Our investigation determined that a woman went into Crystal Nails,
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Speaker 1: got a manicure, and then attempted to pay with a
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Speaker 1: fraudulent credit card. When the credit card payment didn't go through,
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Speaker 1: the customer said that she would get cash from her car.
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Speaker 1: The salon owners noticed that the customer was starting to
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Speaker 1: drive away and ran out to stop her. The female
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Speaker 1: owner jumped in front of the suspect's vehicle while her
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Speaker 1: husband was at the back of the car, at which
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Speaker 1: time the suspect accelerated through the parking lot. The female
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Speaker 1: in front of the car was thrown under the vehicle
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Speaker 1: and later died at umc our investigation has identified the
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Speaker 1: suspect as twenty one year old Crystal Whipple, seen here
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Speaker 1: in a recent booking photo. Please take a close look
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Speaker 1: at the photo. It is important that we get this
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Speaker 1: suspect into custody, as the victim's family in this community
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Speaker 1: deserve to have her answer for this horrible crime. We
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Speaker 1: are asking the public if you have knowledge of Whipple's
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Speaker 1: whereabouts or you have any information about this case, to
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Speaker 1: please contact the LVMPD Homicide Section. In addition, we want
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Speaker 1: to remind the public that if there is ever a
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Speaker 1: dispute over payment, to please contact the police and do
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Speaker 1: not attempt to confront or apprehend someone. Oh my stars,
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Speaker 1: I can hardly take in what has happened to this
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Speaker 1: mom of three. She's been raising her children, three girls
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Speaker 1: alone single mom. Now she's been dragged to her death
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Speaker 1: outside the nail salon where she worked up to fourteen
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Speaker 1: hours a day to support the three girls. And right
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Speaker 1: now on the lamb, still at large the woman who
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Speaker 1: dragged her to her death over a thirty five dollar
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Speaker 1: manicure or crystal whipple. Now you may notice how low
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Speaker 1: key those last two reporters are. That's because they're not reported.
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Speaker 1: They're cops, and they're trying to stay official and calm.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I want to go out to you,
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Speaker 1: Karen Smith, forensics expert. For a person to be dragged
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Speaker 1: to their death, that is a horrible, horrible death. Her
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Speaker 1: clothes or something must have been caught up in the tire.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what, because certainly she would have let go.
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Speaker 1: She was dragged across that asphalt parking lot to her death.
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Speaker 1: And I've looked at the video, Karen, and I every
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Speaker 1: time I stop, I have to stop the video because
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Speaker 1: I know that lady knock Annie, and Annie is suffering
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Speaker 1: excruciating pain, excruciating pain to be dragged to her death,
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Speaker 1: and all over a thirty five dollar manicure. I mean, Karen,
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Speaker 1: what does a person live through to be dragged to
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Speaker 1: their death. Well, you know, it's it's it's difficult to
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Speaker 1: talk about. You know, the official cause of death was
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Speaker 1: multiple blunt force injuries, and that's not surprising considering what happened.
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Speaker 1: I watched the video as well. And you know what, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: when you have these cases, you know, sometimes you fall
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Speaker 1: into a routine, but when you get a case like this,
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Speaker 1: it hits you really hard when you're an investigator. And
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt that Las Vegas Metro is doing
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Speaker 1: everything they can to bring this Crystal Whipple person to justice.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, when you have something like
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Speaker 1: this and you see it at the scene, you have
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Speaker 1: to distance yourself at the time. But I can guarantee
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Speaker 1: you that every single investigator that worked that crime took
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Speaker 1: it home with them that night, and that's going to
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Speaker 1: stick with them for a long long time. I'm just
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Speaker 1: just sick about it. I don't know why this case,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany, is hitting me so hard. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it's because I think about the sacrifice that Annie
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Speaker 1: went through her whole life, if raising these girls all
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Speaker 1: by herself, trying to send them to college on a
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Speaker 1: manicurist salary, working those long hours and now this or
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Speaker 1: the fact that this woman was so callous over thirty
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Speaker 1: five dollars for Pete's sake, and now she's still at large.
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Speaker 1: She won't turn herself in as a matter of fact.
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Speaker 1: Listen to her family. The urgent manhunt for Crystal Whipple continues.
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Speaker 1: Police say Whipple killed fifty one year old Knockwinn while
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Speaker 1: trying to flee a nail salon's parking lot without paying
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Speaker 1: for a thirty five dollar manicure. It's tragic, this is tragic.
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Speaker 1: Her mother and grandmother desperately urging her to come out
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Speaker 1: of hiding. You can't run, baby, You cannot run. You
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Speaker 1: have to come forward, baby. Police say Whipple left the
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Speaker 1: salon after her credit card was declined, the twenty one
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Speaker 1: year old allegedly telling staff she was going to get
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Speaker 1: cash from her car, but instead, authorities say she fled.
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Speaker 1: The suspect's family now offering this emotional apology. I'm so
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Speaker 1: sorry that you lost your mom and I couldn't imagine
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Speaker 1: how you feel, and I hope that you find it
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Speaker 1: in your heart to forgive my daughter and my family. Guys,
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Speaker 1: you are hearing our friends at ABC on GMA and
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Speaker 1: they're talking to Crystal Whipple's mother and grandmother, and they
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Speaker 1: are speaking out to Crystal Whipple, asking her to turn
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Speaker 1: herself in and for forgiveness. But how can there be
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Speaker 1: forgiveness when she hasn't even turned herself in yet. Joining
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Speaker 1: me right now, veteran Atlanta prosecutor Kenya Johnson, Kenya, my
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Speaker 1: question to you is, many people would consider this a
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Speaker 1: vehicular homicide, Okay, and I get that usually vehicular homicides
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Speaker 1: are in connection with DUIs, but okay, but in this case,
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Speaker 1: the fact that she dragged her for such a distance,
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Speaker 1: in my mind, may up this to murder one and also,
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Speaker 1: Kenyan Johnson, another theory is that this is a robbery
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Speaker 1: or at least a theft of services. If that goes
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Speaker 1: into a felony category and a death occurs, that's felony murder. Kenya, Absolutely, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: and this is an intentional killing. While it wasn't premeditated
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Speaker 1: or planned, it was due to Whipple's dangerous conducts and
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Speaker 1: her obvious lack of concern for human life. And also
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Speaker 1: this is part of a crime spree. We're talking about
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Speaker 1: the theft of services. She was driving a stolen car,
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Speaker 1: hit and run we don't even know whether the credit
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Speaker 1: card that eventually came back. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: you just it's like drinking out of a fire hydrant.
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Speaker 1: Kenyan Johnson, Atlanta Prosecute. Hold on, let me back it up,
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Speaker 1: John Lemley, let me ask you a couple of the
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Speaker 1: facts that Kenyan Johnson just brought up. Number one, hit
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Speaker 1: and run? Did she hit Annie? Did she hit her?
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Speaker 1: Or did Annie get caught up in the car chasing
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Speaker 1: the car? Which one? Is it a hit and run?
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Speaker 1: Or no, it is a hidden and run, because well
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Speaker 1: that's a felony right there. I thought somehow I didn't
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Speaker 1: understand how Annie was dried because I wouldn't let myself
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Speaker 1: watch the whole video. And that's another thing, Kenya, Karen
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Speaker 1: and doctor Bethany. It's, as you know, is so hard
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's a prosecutor, because you cannot turn away from
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Speaker 1: the evidence, no matter how difficult it is, no matter
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Speaker 1: how difficult it is to look, you know, squarely at
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Speaker 1: the evidence. And in this case, every time I watch
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Speaker 1: the video, I turn away because I don't want to
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Speaker 1: see Annie killed. But you're telling me, John Linley, she
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Speaker 1: hit her Annie? Was she just caught up in the
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Speaker 1: tires she actually hit her. One of the last things
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Speaker 1: you see with Annie in the surveillance video is Annie
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Speaker 1: putting her hands on the hood of the car, and
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Speaker 1: the next thing, you can't see Annie at all because
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Speaker 1: the woman has accelerated at high speed. Even her family
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Speaker 1: says they don't know where she is. She's just scared
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Speaker 1: right now. I'm sure she's scared. Speaking exclusively the ABC News,
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Speaker 1: they say they have not been able to reach her
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Speaker 1: and hope that when she sees this interview that she
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Speaker 1: will come forward. You can't rub a baby, you cannot run.
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Speaker 1: Crystal Whipple is being sought for striking and killing an
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Speaker 1: employee while fleeing from a Las Vegas nail salon without
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Speaker 1: paying for her thirty five dollar manicure. Surveillance video shows
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Speaker 1: the manicurist and her boyfriend chasing after the car when
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Speaker 1: she accelerates and hits the woman, dragging her violently through
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Speaker 1: the parking lot. The manicurist knock win If, fifty one
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Speaker 1: year old, the mother of three, died at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Whipple's tearful grandmother is convinced it was all an accident.
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Speaker 1: I know you didn't mean to kill the person. We
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Speaker 1: know you, We know you will never do anything like that. Crystal,
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Speaker 1: Please come forth. We need you to come forth and
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Speaker 1: stand up who went on and tell your side of
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Speaker 1: the story of what happened to Las Vegas. Metro Police
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Speaker 1: say they continue to pour an to ordinary amount of
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Speaker 1: resources into the search to bring Whipple to justice. We're
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Speaker 1: hearing our friends at ABC and they were speaking with
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Speaker 1: Crystal Whipple's family right now. Crystal Whipple at large. The
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Speaker 1: hunt for her is on. If you have information, dial
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Speaker 1: nine O nine four nine Crime nine O nine four
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Speaker 1: nine two seven four sixty three. That's us here at
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories and Crime online dot Com. I want to
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Speaker 1: go back to Kenya Johnson, Atlanta prosecutor joining us along
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Speaker 1: with Karen Smith, forensics expert, doctor Bethany Marshall, and John
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Speaker 1: Limley Crime online dot Com investigative reporter. Kenya Johnson, you
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Speaker 1: really unleash a lot of legal theories at once. Number one,
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Speaker 1: it is a hit and run. We don't have to
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Speaker 1: do a backband in order to come up with a felony.
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Speaker 1: That is a felony. But this woman has a history.
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Speaker 1: In fact, as you mentioned correctly, she was in a
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Speaker 1: stolen rental car at the time. She did this, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and all of that information will come out in her
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Speaker 1: subsequent prosecution. That video is going to be very telling
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Speaker 1: and very hard for the jury to watch, but they
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Speaker 1: will see with their own eyes that her co workers
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Speaker 1: and family ran out. Everyone was screaming, there was a
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Speaker 1: big commotion, and Whipple kept driving. She didn't stop. Then
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Speaker 1: she abandoned the vehicle afterward, and now she's on the run.
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Speaker 1: So her actions before using the fake card or the
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Speaker 1: cards that wouldn't pay, and then saying she's going out
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Speaker 1: to her car, the fact that she ran over this victim,
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Speaker 1: and the fact that she fled afterward, would all come
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Speaker 1: out to show a continuing climb spree and goes towards
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Speaker 1: her either premeditation or her intense to hurt someone in
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Speaker 1: committed climes that day. Wow, you know, Karen Smith forensically speaking,
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Speaker 1: which is hard for me to do right now because
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Speaker 1: I'm so disturbed about what happened to Annie and about
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Speaker 1: her three girls. The video, you know, there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of legal hoops, believe it or not, that you
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Speaker 1: have to jump through in order to get a video
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Speaker 1: ad minute into evidence. But tell me after you have
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Speaker 1: an analyzed the video forensically what you see, Karen Smith,
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Speaker 1: and how can it be used. Well, you can only
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Speaker 1: see the back of Crystal Whipple coming out of the salon.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that there was interior video running at
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Speaker 1: the time. I haven't seen that, but that's a possibility.
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Speaker 1: But you do clearly see the car that she's driving.
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Speaker 1: You see her get into the car, you see her
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Speaker 1: back out of the parking space, and then you see
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Speaker 1: the subsequent events. Again, like the attorney said, it's going
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Speaker 1: to be very difficult for the jury to watch. But
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Speaker 1: forensically speaking, once they found the car at the apartment complex,
22:36
Speaker 1: that was the key to unlocking the actual identity of
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Speaker 1: Crystal Whipple. I'm sure that they got some pretty good
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Speaker 1: latent prints off of that car, ran them through the
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Speaker 1: APHIS system and that was the hit because she had
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Speaker 1: been arrested prior, her fingerprints were in the system and
22:51
Speaker 1: that's how they found out who she was. All you
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Speaker 1: could see with the back of her head. There was
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Speaker 1: no facial identification in that video, so it took some
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Speaker 1: good forensic work to get an ident. John Limley Crime
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Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter Kristal Whipple is still on
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Speaker 1: the run. Are you kidding me? Number One, she's in
23:06
Speaker 1: a stolen rental car. They can't find that. Well, she
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Speaker 1: actually ditched that at some point police found that. Well,
23:12
Speaker 1: that was smart on her part, but I'm not giving
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Speaker 1: her a gold star, John Lemley Exactly. That car was
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Speaker 1: a rental card that at some point she acquired. Police
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Speaker 1: have not released that information to us yet. Now, police
23:26
Speaker 1: have said that Whipple was arrested last spring on multiple warrants,
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Speaker 1: including for failing to show up in court for several
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Speaker 1: traffic related citations. A second warrant was issued in connection
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Speaker 1: with a twenty sixteen case in which Whipple pleaded guilty
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Speaker 1: to attempting to possess a stolen vehicle. She later received
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Speaker 1: probation in that case, but she failed to show up
23:49
Speaker 1: in court ultimately saw her probation revoked before being sentenced
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Speaker 1: to four months in jail. You know, it never ends
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Speaker 1: with this woman. The family grieving the case up in
24:00
Speaker 1: the air because Crystal Whipple is still on the run.
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Speaker 1: The three daughters of Annie Gin beside themselves. A makeshift
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Speaker 1: memorial has been erected there at the salon. The salon
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Speaker 1: is closed. This has destroyed these three girls lives forever, forever.
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Speaker 1: There's got to be a trail. She may have ditched
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Speaker 1: her stolen mental car, but doctor Bethany Marshall, there is
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Speaker 1: a trail. People like Crystal Whipple can't help but make
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Speaker 1: themselves known. Explain, no, they cannot. The reason for that,
24:38
Speaker 1: Nancy is I think Crystal Whipple falls into what we
24:41
Speaker 1: call a cluster B personality. Cluster B is when you
24:47
Speaker 1: have several disorders at once. One might be bipolar illness.
24:50
Speaker 1: Whenever a patient comes to my office with multiple traffic
24:54
Speaker 1: incidents like tickets, du eyes, I always assess for bipolar
25:00
Speaker 1: because that causes excessive energy, impulsivity, sometimes callousness. They have
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Speaker 1: rage attacks on the road. And then what clusters, what
25:10
Speaker 1: part of cluster be is bipolar and then another personality
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Speaker 1: disorder called antisocial personality disorder. And with antisocial you get
25:19
Speaker 1: failure to pay back debts to society, so that's like
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Speaker 1: not wanting to pay for her bill in the salon.
25:25
Speaker 1: You get lying, conning, manipulativeness, so that's walking out of
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Speaker 1: the salon saying she's going to pay the bill and
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Speaker 1: then she's not. And then you get that same type
25:33
Speaker 1: of impulsivity that you get with bipolar disorder, and I
25:37
Speaker 1: imagine that's stepping on the gas, running over the manicurist.
25:42
Speaker 1: Although there's a callous aspect, there's a very impulsive aspect
25:46
Speaker 1: to this too. I mean, I'm sure that this perpetrator
25:49
Speaker 1: doesn't really think much about anything she's doing. She's just
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Speaker 1: one big ID. You know, she's just running all over
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Speaker 1: the place, you know, taking cards, taking cars, getting service.
26:00
Speaker 1: What do you mean by one big ID? I as
26:03
Speaker 1: in Indiana, d as in dutiful. I haven't heard the
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Speaker 1: word ID since I had to take a psychology class
26:10
Speaker 1: in college. Go ahead, explain. Freud had the idea of
26:14
Speaker 1: the ID, the ego, and the super ego. Our ID
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Speaker 1: is our childlike part that just runs on the pleasure principle,
26:21
Speaker 1: just runs the muck and does whatever we want to do.
26:23
Speaker 1: The ego is like the adults that's in control. And
26:26
Speaker 1: the super ego is our conscience, the one that the
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Speaker 1: breaking system in the brain, the part of us that
26:32
Speaker 1: puts the brakes on bad behavior. This girl is just
26:35
Speaker 1: running on the pleasure principle. She's doing whatever she wants
26:37
Speaker 1: without thinking about anyone around her. I'm thinking about any
26:41
Speaker 1: the mother who always put her children before herself, the
26:45
Speaker 1: mother of three girls, who had worked seven days a week,
26:49
Speaker 1: seven days a week. She had been constantly putting in
26:53
Speaker 1: twelve to fourteen hours, seven days a week to send
26:56
Speaker 1: her three daughters to college, to support her own mother,
27:00
Speaker 1: her siblings, allowing them to have more opportunity in life.
27:05
Speaker 1: She would even skip eating all day until after hours
27:11
Speaker 1: so she would not miss a single client, so her children,
27:15
Speaker 1: her girls would not have to work as hard as
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Speaker 1: she did. She would never buy anything for herself. I
27:21
Speaker 1: think a lot of mothers can identify with that, and
27:24
Speaker 1: as John Linley was telling us, whenever she would get
27:26
Speaker 1: a gift, she would pass it on to her daughters
27:29
Speaker 1: rather than keeping it for herself. She never asked for
27:34
Speaker 1: anything in return. Every penny she made went toward her family.
27:40
Speaker 1: Then hell Salon has posted we have lost a selfless soul.
27:45
Speaker 1: We miss her, We hold her dear in our hearts,
27:48
Speaker 1: even in the end being selfless being an organ donor.
27:54
Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to our friend
27:56
Speaker 1: at kat NV my Societa speak in two Annie's daughters.
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Speaker 1: It's probably going to affect us every day for most
28:05
Speaker 1: of our lives. And Trent is the oldest sibling the
28:08
Speaker 1: three sisters are leaning on each other like never before.
28:11
Speaker 1: When you look closely at each of their faces and
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Speaker 1: Anna and Christie, you can see the resemblance to their mom.
28:16
Speaker 1: Knock you nu gen. If God felt that it is
28:19
Speaker 1: time for my mom to go, then it's time for
28:21
Speaker 1: her to go. You know, it's all in God's hand,
28:23
Speaker 1: is on God's will, and is nothing we can do
28:26
Speaker 1: or say to change that. Does the girls wait for justice.
28:29
Speaker 1: They're choosing to accept what's happened and look for the good.
28:33
Speaker 1: And so they want to say thank you every words, hugs, gifts.
28:38
Speaker 1: It matter to us and we can't express how we
28:43
Speaker 1: feel through words, and we just want to say thank
28:45
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30:17
Speaker 1: thirty six year old and Hendred Davis hit the streets
30:19
Speaker 1: knocking on doors and looking for anything that might help
30:23
Speaker 1: them find her. I'm concerned about my daughter. I'm hoping
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Speaker 1: that she's some West safe Mirinda Knox along with relatives
30:31
Speaker 1: and friends or walking the streets with flyers in hand,
30:34
Speaker 1: knocking on doors and stopping cars in the sixty ninth
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Speaker 1: Avenue and Scenic Highway area a bad room at neighbors
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Speaker 1: and people anyone we seen, Have they seen her? Have
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Speaker 1: they saw anything? They're looking for a Knox's daughter, thirty
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Speaker 1: six year old Hahndra Davis, a Baker. She was last
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Speaker 1: seen on December twenty seventh, her birthday, when she dropped
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Speaker 1: off her children at her mother's house. I just don't
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Speaker 1: believe in my heart that she would just walk away
31:02
Speaker 1: and no one knowing anything. Where is this beautiful mom?
31:07
Speaker 1: A Baker woman missing last scene dropping off her two
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Speaker 1: children at her mother's home on her birthday. This is
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Speaker 1: according to Baker PD Baker Police Department. Nihandra Davis is
31:18
Speaker 1: thirty five of Baker. Last scene in December twenty seven,
31:22
Speaker 1: around four forty five pm in broad Delight. She dropped
31:27
Speaker 1: the children off there and the Glen Oaks area of
31:30
Speaker 1: Baton Rouge left home. She was driving a white Dodge Challenger.
31:35
Speaker 1: Don't know exactly where she was heading where she left,
31:38
Speaker 1: but her Dodge Challenger was found abandoned on Scening Highway
31:43
Speaker 1: in seventy second av N Baker. Just beautiful. She has
31:49
Speaker 1: a smile that lights up her room or teeth are
31:51
Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. I'm looking at a big smile of hers
31:53
Speaker 1: right now. She's five to three to five five. She
31:56
Speaker 1: weighs about one hundred forty two one hundred and fifty.
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Speaker 1: If you have information, please dial two two five seven
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Speaker 1: seven five six thousand. Repeat two two five seven seventy
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Speaker 1: five six thousand. Right now, police begging for help to
32:11
Speaker 1: find the Hantre Davis straight out to Alan Duke joining
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Speaker 1: me in La. Who's all over the story? Alan, you're
32:19
Speaker 1: familiar with the Baker area. Explain? Yeah, well I go
32:21
Speaker 1: there for family funerals and that sort of thing. My
32:23
Speaker 1: wife is from Baker. It is not a really thriving area.
32:27
Speaker 1: Let's just say a suburb of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I mean,
32:31
Speaker 1: nothing has been thriving there since Hurricane Katrina. So let
32:35
Speaker 1: me ask you a question about Baker. You're saying it's
32:37
Speaker 1: rural or suburban. It's suburban. It's These are subdivisions and
32:41
Speaker 1: they're probably the nicer ones were built maybe in the seventies.
32:45
Speaker 1: To ask You Wilcot juvenile judge and lawyer at ask
32:49
Speaker 1: you Wilcot dot com. This is what's sticking out to me.
32:52
Speaker 1: No way with this mom. Just leave those two children.
32:56
Speaker 1: She made two very careful pains to get them safely
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Speaker 1: to her mother's. I think she was going out to
33:02
Speaker 1: dinner for her birthday. That's what I think she was doing.
33:04
Speaker 1: It was her birthday, hone's birthday. No way would she
33:08
Speaker 1: just leave them. They lived with her, She's the primary caregiver.
33:12
Speaker 1: She leaves them at her mom so she can go
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Speaker 1: out on her birthday and bam you find her white
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Speaker 1: challenger abandoned. Yeah, so let's be honest, Nancy. Oftentimes the
33:21
Speaker 1: clue that leads us to understand something nefarious bad has
33:26
Speaker 1: happened is when a mother leaves her children, takes care
33:30
Speaker 1: of her children, does something safely with them, and then boom,
33:33
Speaker 1: the mother disappears. Mother don't disappear, take off and leave
33:38
Speaker 1: their children generally, So I agree with you. You know,
33:42
Speaker 1: to Karen Start, your psychologists joining us. You can find
33:45
Speaker 1: her at karen Start dot com Karen Start. This goes
33:48
Speaker 1: against everything we know about in Hanja Fe Davis. That's true, Nancy.
33:52
Speaker 1: She's exactly what everyone is saying. She was a wonderful mother,
33:55
Speaker 1: she cared about her children, she was dropping them off.
34:00
Speaker 1: There is that there's no history of her doing anything
34:04
Speaker 1: that would lead to her just vanishing without a trace.
34:07
Speaker 1: So back to you, Alan Duke, who all you seem
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Speaker 1: to want to talk about is that there's a rundown
34:14
Speaker 1: area of town. I mean, Alan, you and your posh
34:17
Speaker 1: penthouse pad in LA. You're trying to tell me there's
34:20
Speaker 1: not a rundown area of La. Oh yeah, just in
34:23
Speaker 1: my backyard. But no, you know, I don't want to
34:26
Speaker 1: make my in laws upset by saying that. But well,
34:28
Speaker 1: why do you keep saying it? What does that have
34:30
Speaker 1: to do with anything? Well, anyway, another feature of Baker
34:34
Speaker 1: is it rains there a lot, you know, in the
34:36
Speaker 1: in Louisiana. How how moist it is? Well, where they
34:39
Speaker 1: found her Dodge Challenger, the white Dodge Challenger, the same
34:43
Speaker 1: evening that she was reported disappeared. It was in a
34:46
Speaker 1: flooded area. She had driven or somebody had put the
34:49
Speaker 1: car underwater. It wasn't in a lake or upon. It
34:52
Speaker 1: was just in a flooded area. And this is what's
34:55
Speaker 1: really disturbing is her keys, her pocket book with cash
34:59
Speaker 1: in it, and other things that she would take with
35:01
Speaker 1: her were still inside that Challenger. Well, I doubt, very seriously,
35:06
Speaker 1: I mean, just common sense, as she will caught that
35:08
Speaker 1: a mom would drive her car straight into a flooded area.
35:12
Speaker 1: That means to me that a car has been sitting
35:15
Speaker 1: there and then it flooded That's what I think too,
35:17
Speaker 1: because again we stand you know, I stand by generally
35:20
Speaker 1: most mothers are going to first and foremost care for
35:24
Speaker 1: their children, come back to their children. And so if
35:27
Speaker 1: it were there and then the floodshead, that makes the
35:29
Speaker 1: most sense in the scenario based on what we know.
35:32
Speaker 1: Straight back to Alan Duke, explain to me one more
35:35
Speaker 1: time what happened the day she was last seeing guys.
35:39
Speaker 1: For those of you just joining us, we're talking about
35:41
Speaker 1: a beautiful young mom, Hondrefe Davis. She went missing in
35:45
Speaker 1: Baker that's not too far from Baton Rouge in Louisiana.
35:50
Speaker 1: Tip line two to five seven seven five six thousand,
35:53
Speaker 1: Repeat two to five seven seven five six thousand. Tell
35:57
Speaker 1: me again. I want to hear those facts one more time.
35:59
Speaker 1: Alan dropped her kids off at four forty five in
36:03
Speaker 1: the afternoon because apparently they think she was going out,
36:06
Speaker 1: but they're not sure really where she was heading. So
36:09
Speaker 1: she dropped them off at her mother's house at four
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Speaker 1: forty five in the evening in the Glen Oaks area
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Speaker 1: of Baton Rouge, and then she disappeared. Later they found
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Speaker 1: her car partially submerged. Her nickname is Ninny I want
36:23
Speaker 1: you to take a listen to our friends at WAFB TV.
36:27
Speaker 1: It's reporter Edward Phelps. What we know right now is Njandra,
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Speaker 1: a Baker woman, missing lasting dropping off for two children
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Speaker 1: at her own mother's home. And this is according to
36:36
Speaker 1: the Baker Police Department. I wish you could see her
36:38
Speaker 1: photo right now. Beautiful smile, big brown eyes, just staring
36:45
Speaker 1: at the camera as if she's looking at the whole
36:48
Speaker 1: beautiful world before her. Let me give you this tip
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Speaker 1: line again. Two two five seven seven, five six thousand.
36:55
Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at WAFB TV. It
36:58
Speaker 1: was just two fifteen. White Dog's Challenger was found a
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Speaker 1: bannon on Sitting Highway near sixty ninth Avenue the same
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Speaker 1: day she went missing. The car was caught in high
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Speaker 1: water and flooded. When Davis's car was found here on
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Speaker 1: Sitting Highway, the keys were still inside of it, along
37:14
Speaker 1: with her purse that had cash and credit cards not touched.
37:19
Speaker 1: The family didn't find out the car had been told
37:21
Speaker 1: until Friday, eight days after Davis disappeared, leaving behind a
37:25
Speaker 1: thirteen year old daughter and six year old son. But
37:29
Speaker 1: that gives me some kind of hope that she's somewhere
37:33
Speaker 1: around and by the grace of God, we're hoping to
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Speaker 1: find her. Nancy Grace Crime Story, signing off goodbye friend,